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Common Food Supplement Fights Degenerative Brain Disorders, Study Suggests
May 21, 2013 — Widely available in pharmacies and health stores, phosphatidylserine is a natural food supplement produced from beef, oysters, and soy. Now scientists have discovered that the supplement improves the ... > full story -
Finding a Family for a Pair of Orphan Receptors in the Brain
May 21, 2013 — Researchers have identified a protein that stimulates a pair of "orphan receptors" found in the brain, solving a long-standing biological puzzle and possibly leading to future treatments for ... > full story -
Waiting for a Sign? Researchers Find Potential Brain 'Switch' for New Behavior
May 21, 2013 — You're standing near an airport luggage carousel and your bag emerges on the conveyor belt, prompting you to spring into action. How does your brain make the shift from passively waiting to taking ... > full story -
Visual Search Function: Where Scene Context Happens in Our Brain
May 21, 2013 — Though a seemingly simple and intuitive strategy, visual search function -- a process that takes mere seconds for the human brain -- is still something that a computer can't do as accurately. Over ... > full story -
Child Maltreatment Increases Risk of Adult Obesity
May 21, 2013 — Children who have suffered maltreatment are 36 percent more likely to be obese in adulthood compared to non-maltreated children, according to a new study. The authors estimate that the prevention or ... > full story -
Doctors Prescribe More Analgesics to Women Than to Men Just for Being Female, Spanish Study Shows
May 21, 2013 — Regardless of pain, social class or age, a woman is more likely to be prescribed pain-relieving drugs. A new study affirms that this phenomenon is influenced by socioeconomic inequality between ... > full story -
Clouds in the Head: New Model of Brain's Thought Processes
May 21, 2013 — A new model of the brain's thought processes explains the apparently chaotic activity patterns of individual neurons. They do not correspond to a simple stimulus/response linkage, but arise from the ... > full story -
Genetic Predictors of Postpartum Depression Uncovered
May 21, 2013 — Researchers say they have discovered specific chemical alterations in two genes that, when present during pregnancy, reliably predict whether a woman will develop postpartum ... > full story -
Asthma Symptoms Impair Sleep Quality and School Performance in Children
May 21, 2013 — The negative effects of poorly controlled asthma symptoms on sleep quality and academic performance in urban schoolchildren has been confirmed in a new ... > full story -
How to Best Manage Workaholics: New Study Offers Insight
May 21, 2013 — Workaholics tend to live in extremes, with great job satisfaction and creativity on the one hand and high levels of frustration and exhaustion on the other hand. Now, a new study offers managers ... > full story
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